Amazon's Alexa can now talk to you as Samuel L. Jackson

Abigail Rosenthal, GateHouse Media

Thursday

Sep 26, 2019 at 9:09 AM

If you've ever wanted Samuel L. Jackson to curse at you, the opportunity is here.

Later this year, you can have the Oscar-nominated actor voicing your Echo, Amazon announced Wednesday. The company recruited Jackson to be the first celebrity to lend his voice to Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant, both in clean or explicit language (because it's Jackson, of course).

You'll be able to ask Jackson to do a few tasks on your Echo. Some suggestions from Amazon: